Report: Football announces new offensive coordinator
For the first time in seven seasons, the Central Michigan football team will have a new coach running the offense.
Running backs coach Gino Guidugli was reportedly announced on Wednesday by Chris Vannini of coachingsearch.com as the new offensive coordinator, following the retirement of Morris Watts.
Guidugli, 33, will also take over as quarterbacks coach along with calling the plays on offense. He will no longer coach the running backs.
CMU ranked 78th out of 128 teams in total offense in 2016 and dead last in the Mid-American Conference in rushing (116.5) for the second straight year.
Guidugli worked under former head coach Dan Enos as a graduate assistant from 2009-11 and re-joined the staff in 2013, where he has since served as the running backs coach and recruiting coordinator.
Morris had been on the Chippewa staff since 2011 and had served as the offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach since 2013. He mentored quarterbacks Ryan Radcliffe and Cooper Rush — who went on to finish second all-time in Mid-American Conference passing yards (12,883).
Watts, 78, retires from college football with more experience than any other current NCAA Bowl Subdivision Coach with 44 years.
Guidugli played quarterback at Cincinnati from 2001-04 and broke school records for passing attempts (1,556), completions (880), passing yards (11, 453) touchdown passes (78) and total offense (11, 661). In 2015, Guidugli was inducted into the Bearcat ring of honor.
Guidugli went on to play for the Arena Football league’s Milwaukee Mustangs in 2011 and threw for 1,313 yards and 23 touchdowns. He also played for the AFL’s New York Dragons, CFL’s British Columbia Lions, and with the Green Bay Blizzard of the AFL2.
Guidugli spent the 2005 preseason with the Tennessee Titans.
The Fort Thomas, Kentucky native earned his master’s degree in sport administration from Central Michigan in 2012.
